You are not promised anything beyond THIS MOMENT!

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

Inspiration does not come genetically or automatically. Neither is it continuously present.

If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists.